Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Americans win Nobel for big-bang study

John Mather answers questions after receiving word he won the 2006 Nobel Prize at the NASA Headquarters in Washington October 3 2006. Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics for work on cosmic radiation that helped pinpoint the age of the universe and added weight to the Big Bang theory of its birth. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)Two Americans win the Nobel Prize in physics for measuring the oldest light in the heavens a feat that convinced skeptics of the big-bang theory of the universe’s origin.


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